I thought of Valentin Vadimovich the cat that I wrote about in my story Boquerones en vinagre for A Fictional Residency(a sub-project of Moderation(s), Hong Kong, 2013) and I thought it would be nice to bring in two very odd artificial beverages: one of them is for cats, and one of them is for humans. I thought about it more, and that’s what shifted me to cat milk. But then the reply from Samuel and Heman was that they wanted to avoid this obvious East-West binary in the exhibition. The form will stay the same but the content in the Tetra Pak is different. I would do one with a drink from Hong Kong, and one with a European one. NA: One of my first responses was to make two pyramids. There isn’t a context per se, nor are you familiar with the city of Rotterdam. I had four different kinds of drinks in the pyramid, and everything was in multiples of four.ĬL: How did you perceive or relate to the context that was offered to you in the exhibition in Rotterdam? The show’s premise could sound very enigmatic and open. NA: It was location specific and the main point is that it has to be Tetra Paks.
It’s actually made with lactase, which is this enzyme that digests lactose.ĬL: What kinds of drinks did you use to construct in the pyramid in Singapore?
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I have been drinking lactose free milk lately.
If you buy milk for cats, it is special cat milk. The thing about cats is that even though everyone thinks they like milk, when they are adults they cannot digest lactose, so cats can’t actually drink milk. It exists in limited quantities for fancy pets, and the other pyramid I would be made out of non-dairy creamer. At one point, I also wanted to make one pyramid out of cat milk. I thought of a bunch of other things that could be shown alongside it to create a context around it. In the beginning, I thought what I would do is to think how the pyramid would work in the context of the exhibition. NA: There were a lot of back and forth conversations with the exhibition curators Heman Chong and Samuel Saelemakers. How do you usually extract works out of a cluster to be presented as a stand-alone fragment, or for this exhibition, in particular? In your practice, you often create a mise en scène composed with individual works. Nadim Abbas (NA) spoke to Christina Li (CL) two weeks before the installation of his piece Holy Mt IV for The Part In The Story Where A Part Becomes A Part Of Something Else, on view at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art from 22 May to 17 August 2014.ĬL: For the exhibition, you are showing Holy M t IV (2013), a pyramid of Tetra Pak beverages, which was part of a larger presentation Tetraphilia that you made specifically for the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in Singapore.
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